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Bravo # 52, November 2006
(original German text: Sascha Wernicke)
Our Life in the Studio
New Album. New Single. That’s what Tokio Hotel are working and living for in the studio for months now. Exclusive to Bravo Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg talk about the current state of affairs…
Rehearsing, composing, arranging, recording. Again and again. Until the song is perfect. To make music is a tough job! Tokio Hotel could write a book about it [literal German idiom and a little wordplay: could sing a song about it]! Bill (17), Tom (17), Gustav (18) and Georg (19) have frenetically been working on their new album “Zimmer 483” (out 23.2.) in a recording studio near Hamburg for the past months. The new single “Übers Ende der Welt” will finally be released on 26th January [2007]! However, until then the guys still have got their hands full…
Bravo: Your single is already finished – why won’t it get out as a Christmas present already?
Bill: We would’ve liked to do that. However, we want to offer something to the fans! Therefore, we have to really make sure that it turned out to be absolutely cool. That’s why we allow ourselves a bit more time for it…
Tom: At least we’ve already got our cover shooting in the can and will still film our new video this year as well. Surely Bravo will also be present for that then…!
Bravo: What do the new songs actually sound like?
Bill: One will recognize that it’s Tokio Hotel straight away. The sound stayed the same…
Georg: … however, this time we tried lots of things – musical-wise we also continued to develop.
Tom: Once again lyrics were very important to us this time. We really got lots of cool topics. You can look forward to it. We don’t want to give away too much already though…
Bravo: How do things work in the studio with you?
Bill: For the time that we work there we also live there. We’ve got a small studio flat.
Tom: As if it wouldn’t be enough that I’m on the road with Georg all the time. Now I even have to live together with that one. (laughs out loud)
Bravo: What does a day in the studio look like?
Gustav: That depends completely on when the gents finally get up. That could be not until 4 pm with them.
Bill: We just like to sleep late. (grins)
Bravo: Okay. So you also argue quite often?
Bill: Well, only over the bathroom actually, who may go when.
Gustav: I hate it when I step out of a hot shower and then the bathroom is cold. Only because someone of those laughing stocks left the door open. I always turn up the heating in the evening – but when my fellow bandmates use the bathroom during the night they just leave the door open.
Bravo: What about food actually? Are you cooking for each other?
Bill: Yes! Gustav made Lasagne for us once!
Gustav: We also cook together. For example Pasta.
Bill: So one cooks noodles, one makes the sauce and the others set the table. That’s fun somehow.
Bravo: What can you cook?
Bill: Well, I can [cook] Spaghetti, rice pudding, semolina pudding…
Tom: Just about everybody can cook with a good cookbook. Ingredients are listed in there, [and] how much is needed. One mixes it all together – done! (laughs)
Bravo: Have you got good table manners?
Bill: Many [people] are a bit shocked about us when it comes to that – we often belch for example.
Gustav: We’re also messy in the studio flat. Crisps are lying around there and cola gets knocked over.
Georg: So it looks like it’s been hit by a bomb.
Bravo: And how does it work when you’re recording?
Tom: Everybody records their instruments individually. Gustav on drums at first, followed by Georg on bass, then me on guitar and Bill records his vocal parts in the end. Of course I need least time for my guitar riffs. (grins)
Georg: Oh well. (joins in laughing)
Bravo: What happens when Bill is singing the songs – is everybody else listening?
Tom: I’m certainly not listening to that! (keeps laughing)
Bill: Nah, everybody is just doing their thing in peace. One can concentrate best like that.
Bravo: And does it happen that you also have to record a song several times?
Bill: [This] can happen. Everything’s just supposed to turn out really well. We want to present a really good album to the fans – and therefore it’s of course necessary to record vocal parts of a song several times, until everything’s in place. One also doesn’t sing a complete song in one go anyway. It’ll get split into several parts in the studio.
Bravo: Are you taking a break over Christmas?
Bill: Yes, for the holidays all of us will be with our families at home in Magdeburg.
Bravo: What are you wishing for?
Bill: Nothing material. We’re just happy to being able to spend some time with our folks…
[background picture: Georg, Tom, Bill, Gustav (from left) are finished with their new album “Zimmer 483”. The band will go on a big tour with it from 16.3.{2007} You can find the dates on bravo.de.]